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  • Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering in Fiction and Life Writing

    Edited by Helena Wahlström Henriksson, Anna Williams, Margaretha Fahlgren ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing ... Read more

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  • The Palliative Society

    Pain Today

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a palliative politics that is ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

    by Lauren Fournier ...
    Autotheory--the commingling of theory and philosophy with autobiography--as a mode of critical artistic practice indebted to feminist writing and activism.In the 2010s, the term "autotheory" began to trend in literary spheres, where it was used to describe books in which memoir and autobiography fused with theory and philosophy. In this book, Lauren Fournier extends the meaning of the term, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Biopolitics

    An Advanced Introduction

    by Thomas Lemke, Lisa Jean Moore, Monica Casper ...
    Series Book 5 - Biopolitics
    The first systematic overview of the notion of biopolitics and its relevance in contemporary theoretical debateThe biological features of human beings are now measured, observed, and understood in ways never before thought possible, defining norms, establishing standards, and determining average values of human life. While the notion of “biopolitics” has been linked to everything from rational ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Recognition or Disagreement

    A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity

    by Axel Honneth, Jacques Rancière ...
    Series Book 30 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Rancière has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure contemporary societies. In a rare dialogue, these two philosophers explore the affinities and tensions ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • An Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and its influence is still felt today.The book’s success owes much to Beauvoir’s brilliant writing style and passion, but both are rooted in the ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Hegel: Philosophy of History: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by David Duquette ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hegel: Philosophy of Politics: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Thom Brooks ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Telling Stories

    The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History

    by Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, Barbara Laslett ...
    In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives-autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs-are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

    Edited by Kristina Malmio, Kaisa Kurikka ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatures ... Read more

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  • History of the Body

    by Willemijn Ruberg ...
    Series series Theory and History
    The body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes as the history of disease, disability, beauty, and sexuality. This engaging and concise book offers a clear introduction to the history of the body, introducing a wide array of conceptual approaches to the field. It delineates the topic of body history and its origins in cultural ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts

    Motherhood in Contemporary Women’s Literatures

    Edited by Elizabeth Podnieks, Andrea O’Reilly ...
    Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, with child, and in her multiple identities as grandmother, mother, and daughter.The collection examines how authors use textual spaces to accept, negotiate, resist, or challenge traditional ... Read more

    $35.29 USD